A minor mode that adds some useful commands for navigating around a grails project In the root of the grails project (where the grails-app directory is) add this to your .dir-locals.el file (v23+) (groovy-mode . ((grails-mode . 1))) (java-mode . ((grails-mode . 1))) (html-mode . ((grails-mode . 1))) This will turn on grails minor mode whenever a groovy, java or gsp file is opened, this presumes you have gsp files et to use html-mode adjust to whatever mode gsp files use or just add this to have grails mode with any file in that directory structure ((nil . ((grails-mode . 1)))) The main addition is a view in anything that shows all the grails project files